Alexandre Barrette had a mini-bacon crisis at Everybody talks about itlast spring, when Guy A. Lepage cited my column where I criticized the ease of the ordeals undergone by the campers of Get me out of here! as well as their “luxurious” living conditions in comparison with those, extrarudimentary, imposed on competitors of Survivor Quebec.
I quote myself, to think myself good: “ Get me out of here!it is the Club Med of the Maldives Islands in comparison with Survivor Quebec, where the brave live only on coconuts and lukewarm water.” In the same text, I predicted, guided by Nostradumas, that “the shattering arrival of Survivor on our screens will certainly force the team Get me out of here! to raise the quality and level of the challenges she will submit to her stars in the second season.”
Rather fair remarks, which Alexandre Barrette digested poorly, like an undercooked crocodile leg. “At the same time, you have Colette Provencher who is 62 years old. Do you want us to kill Colette? », replied Alexandre Barrette, who must have found it thrilling to see candidates weighing coffee beans for 45 minutes.
A year later, well, well, what does this same Alexandre Barrette predict in the first episode of the second season of Get me out of here!which TVA relays on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. against Big Brother Celebrities ? “We’re getting a little rougher than season one,” trumpets the co-host (with Jean-Philippe Dion) in the first seconds of this opening episode.
Whoops! Could it be that my uncle Hugo, grumpy, grumpy, but still alert when it comes to reality TV, was right?
I watched the first two hours of Get me out of here! and, yes, it’s much better than the last edition. Certain challenges raise the level of anxiety to the “panic attack” level.
In the second episode, wait until you see the terror in the eyes of Patricia Paquin, locked in a glass cabin that fills with water, without forgetting the snakes that wrap themselves around the host of Rythme-FM. One milligram of Ativan, STAT!
The nine players selected (the tenth will arrive as a surprise later) are capable of taking it. Hairy spiders, foul-smelling mud, electric shocks, sticky stagnant water, hyperactive mice and a mountain of slimy snakes, welcome to Fort Boyard, extreme jungle version.
Better structured, the first episode of Get me out of here! raises the bar by transporting the first five brave people to the roof of a chic hotel in Panama City, where a red carpet was rolled out. Host Clodine Desrochers shines with a thousand silver sequins, while Sophie Durocher wears a chic gala outfit. This glam will only last a few minutes and will give way to caramel brown Palladium outdoor boots and red bandanas.
But before reaching the base camp, you will have to walk on a wire stretched between two balconies located at 53e floor of the tallest building in Central America. One person will fail this tightrope walker challenge and it’s not who you think.
Comedian Rosalie Vaillancourt causes the first discomfort of the season by not recognizing columnist Sophie Durocher. Like: who are you? I write in The Montreal Journal, replies the journalist. Unable to restrain herself, Rosalie Vaillancourt later confided that she hated everything Sophie Durocher wrote, who took the blow well. The humid and heavy air of Panama softens morals, it seems.
Also, actress Audrey Roger and Rosalie Vaillancourt – two natural allies – did not know what sport Dave Morissette practiced before landing in front of the TVA cameras. Rosalie thought Dave was… a professional wrestler.
Despite the mosquitoes that devour them, the mood of the nine joyful castaways remains stable. They support each other, tease each other, encourage each other in trials and in the daily cooking of porridge, beans and rice, the basic foods of Get me out of here!. The rest of the food, campers earn by diving their hands into boxes full of disgusting surprises. And the coffee, which Alex Perron is clamoring for, will not flow quickly.
As in LOL: who will laugh last?, comedian Philippe Laprise is super endearing. The one who stands out the least is the skateboarder Sébastien Toutant, more shy and visibly less used to standing out in a group of extroverted artists.
I loved the energy and enthusiasm of Clodine Desrochers, less princess than the image she gives off. It is my favorite. She overcomes her fears and says, in a funny way, holy bastard!
Audrey Roger also surprises by rushing headlong into a challenge that takes place in a sewer. She and Rosalie Vaillancourt form a very entertaining duo.
And Sophie Durocher, how is she doing? you ask. Rather good, his detractors will lament. Co-hosting, Jean-Philippe Dion and Alexandre Barrette resume their mocking and teasing style, insert here a gag of the air conditioning and the feast that awaits them upon their return to the five-star hotel.
In any case, it is not so much the animation as the reactions of the participants that interest us in Get me out of here!. But don’t tell Alexandre Barrette. Plans for him to take another leap when he’s allowed to return to Everybody talks about it.